Office Hours: Setting and Stream of Consciousness

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What’s New

On Writing and Productivity - Setting

  • Where does your story take place?

  • How does that setting influence your setting?

    • Some stories can be moved like Emma to Clueless

    • Some depend on the setting to move the story along

  • Researching settings when travel is hard or expensive

    • Google Earth/Streetview

    • Youtube

  • Nothing beats going there

    • Note details like smell and noise levels that you can’t get from a picture or Google streetview

    • Details that give your story authenticity

What I’m Writing

  • Book 4 - Gaining momentum coming into the Finale

  • Stream of Consciousness exercise from Creative Writer’s Notebook - Read aloud. You can see what I wrote here.

What I’m Reading

What I’m Watching

  • Outlander - thoughts on episode 511 “Journeycake” & David Berry leaving the show

  • Upload - The Good Place meets Black Mirror with a lot of heart


What I’m Crafting

  • Not much, more writing than crafting